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The Internationale (album)

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Released
  
May 1990

Artist
  
Billy Bragg

Producer
  
Grant Showbiz

Genre
  
Folk music

Length
  
19:23

Release date
  
May 1990

Label
  
Utility Records

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Recorded
  
January–March 1990 Gateway Studios, Cathouse Studio and Pier House Studio

The Internationale (1990)
  
The Peel Sessions Album (1991)

Similar
  
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Billy bragg the internationale


The Internationale is a 1990 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records, it is a deliberately political album, consisting mainly of cover versions and rewrites of left-wing protest songs. Although Bragg is known for his association with left-wing causes, this release is unusual; most of Bragg's recordings balance overtly political songs with social observation and love songs.

Contents

Billy bragg the internationale


Versions

The album was originally released as a seven track EP in 1990.

In 2006, as part of a planned series of reissues of albums in his back catalogue, The Internationale was remastered and reissued along with the seven tracks from 1988's Live & Dubious EP and five bonus tracks. Also included is a bonus DVD titled Here and There containing live concerts from East Berlin, Nicaragua and the Soviet Union.

  1. "The Internationale" (Pierre De Geyter, Billy Bragg) – 3:45
  2. "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" (Earl Robinson, Bragg) – 1:27
  3. "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" (Bragg) – 3:59
  4. "Blake's Jerusalem" (William Blake, Hubert Parry) – 2:30
  5. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (Carlos Mejía Godoy) – 1:06
  6. "The Red Flag" (Jim Connell, traditional) – 3:12
  7. "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" (Eric Bogle) – 3:04

    Live & Dubious EP
  8. "Introduction" (live) – 0:57
  9. "Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
  10. "Think Again" (live) (Dick Gaughan) – 4:21
  11. "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" (Bernice Johnson Reagon) – 3:09
  12. "Days Like These" (DC remix) (Bragg) – 2:40
  13. "To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:47
  14. "There Is Power in a Union" (with The Pattersons) (Bragg, George F. Root, traditional) – 3:27

    Bonus tracks
  15. "Joe Hill" (Phil Ochs) – 8:23
  16. "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:35
  17. "Never Cross a Picket Line" (Bragg) – 3:38
  18. "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) – 3:58
  19. "A Miner's Life" (traditional) – 3:01
  1. "There Is Power in a Union" (live) (Bragg, Root, traditional) – 2:35
  2. "Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:31

    Nicaragua – July 1987
  3. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (live) (Godoy) – 1:07

    Lithuania USSR – May 1988
  4. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (live) (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 2:07
  5. "To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
  6. "The Milkman of Human Kindness" (live) (Bragg) – 2:29
  7. "Island of No Return" (live) (Bragg) – 3:24
  8. "Introduction to Between the Wars" (live) – 3:15
  9. "Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
  10. "The World Turned Upside Down" (live) (Leon Rosselson) – 3:02
  11. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" (live) (Bragg) – 3:15
  12. "Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
  13. "A New England" (Bragg) – 2:04
  14. "Wishing the Days Away" (Bragg) – 4:15
  15. "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) / "Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) – 3:02
  16. "Star" (David Bowie) – 1:56
  17. "A13, Trunk Road to The Sea" (Bobby Troup) – 2:17

Musicians

  • Billy Bragg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
  • Cara Tivey – piano, vocals, shakuhachi
  • Lorraine Bowen – clarinet, soprano recorder, piano, accordion, organ
  • The Christie Tyler Cory Band – brass
  • Côr Cochion Caerdydd – vocals
  • Marc Duff – whistles
  • Jim Sutherland – bodhran, percussion
  • Dick Gaughan – vocals
  • Wiggy – bass guitar, vocals
  • Charlie Llewellin – drum, cymbal
  • Grant Showbiz – vocals
  • David Bedford – arrangement and conducting

    • Production

  • Grant Showbiz – producer, reissue producer
  • Wiggy – producer, compiled by
  • Kenny Jones – producer
  • Charlie Llewellin – engineer
  • Derek Bolland – engineer
  • Peter Haigh – engineer
  • Step Parikian – engineer
  • Tim Young – remastered by
  • Duncan Cowell – remastered by

    • Songs

    1The Internationale3:48
    2I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night1:29
    3The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions4:02

    References

    The Internationale (album) Wikipedia
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